Submitting array jobs

Overview

Teaching: 15 min
Exercises: 15 min

Questions

• How to submit, monitor or cancel array jobs (and why).

Objectives

• Be able to submit, monitor and cancel array jobs applicable for several input scenarios

• Why
• Scenarios / examples
• Distributed computing
• --array=1-10
• simple example

#!/bin/bash
##FIXME include additional opts here
#SBATCH --array=1-10

sleep 120 
hostname
echo $SLURM_TASK_ID

• complex example (real data crunching)
• squeue, sacct, scancel

Key Points

• First key point. Brief Answer to questions. (FIXME)